MSHR MSHR is an art collective founded by Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper in 2011 in Portland, Oregon, that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems. Their performances and installations integrate electrical signals and human presence, weaving dense networks of causality to form audiovisual environments that babble with life-like current. They explore intuitive and technical gradients between sonic and sculptural forms, using analog circuitry and open-source software to sculpt mutually resonant hyperobjects.
T Putnam Hill T Putnam Hill is a writer, editor, guitarist and electroacoustic musician currently based in Austin, Texas. In recordings and performance, Hill produces impromptu audio collages of various sound materials—from live guitar to field recordings to feedback loops—to create auditory environments that drift between stasis and disorder, from harmonic to discordant, and from the organic to synthetic.
Hill is an active member of Phonography Austin, a sound arts organization dedicated to the exploration of phonography and acoustic ecology, and founder of Loma Editions, a nascent multimedia label focused on electroacoustic music and experimental literature.
Rebecca Novak Improviser and artist Rebecca Novak works with a shifting constellation of instruments and objects - cornet, piano, shortwave radio, glass vases - honing fine-grained textures and seemingly electronic- or mechanical-sounding noise, opening a multifaceted landscape of sound.
Interrogating the liminal spaces between sound, vision and language, my work often combinesmusic with sculpture, live writing, or projected image to investigate the complex relationships between environment & self, performance & being, body & object, the political & the philosophical. Called Annotations, these group-navigated improvisations refer both to a way of "annotating" or translating an experience or idea across practices, and an absence of traditional notation.
